UNIDO Impact Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Efficiency Sector in South Africa This assignment for UNIDO aimed to provide data and analysis to determine the contribution of the their Industrial (IIE) Energy Efficiency project in enhancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in the IEE sector in South Africa . It looked at the…
Like many other organisations during the COVID 19 pandemic the GRA has been using technology for gender capacity building with clients. A sharp learning curve for a small non profit who are experts in participatory training! During the 08-09 December 2020 we held our first gender mainstreaming training using an online platform across three countries:…
Conducted by The Gender Research Alliance, for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW) to support their work in Kenya. The purpose of this research was to assess the capacity needs of women entrepreneurs and to take stock of their entrepreneurial ecosystem. It also profiled women entrepreneurs that may be suited to participate in the…
This assignment conducted a gender analysis and develop a resulting action plan with indicators of achievement and gender baseline information for the Benguela Current Convention (BCC). This has enabled the monitoring and reporting of organisational progress in promoting gender equality in BCC operations going forward. The findings from the gender analysis were also used to…
The objective of this assignment for the International Labour organisation was to understand the current situation of cooperatives and other similar organizations in Jere Local Government Area, Nigeria, particularly their capacities, strengths, weaknesses and needs. particularly their capacities, strengths, weaknesses and needs. The Gender Research Alliance collaborated with African Centre for Innovative Research and Development…
The Gender Research Alliance is technically advising and supporting the General Representation of the Government of Flanders in South Africa to gender mainstream their green economy project portfolio by: Helping Flanders in South Africa to develop gender goals for its development cooperation in the green economy. Analysing and advising green economy projects in gender mainstreaming…
The Gender Research Alliance is facilitating a participatory gender audit to assist a large South African Occupational Health and Safety Parastatal in its aim to achieve gender equality within its workplace, programs and develop the capacity of their staff to understand gender concepts in relation to their work. The audit will be running from March-May…
Enterprises and Decent Work: The work with the International Labour Organisation’s Multinational Enterprises and Enterprise Engagement Unit to produce a case study that provides an overview MNE practices that impact decent work in global supply chains has been completed with the client commenting: “(The case study) looks good and reads well…thank you”
The work with the International Labour Organisation’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities to capture the initiatives of national Employers’ Organizations in Sub Saharan Africa to include in a handbook on advancing women in business and management was successfully completed with the client comment: “Thanks again for the interview reports. They were well-written and very interesting and…
This gender and disability audit will be conducted with the NGO during February-April 2016. It will be developed with NGO and carried out by The Gender Research Alliance team of two trained facilitators. The audit follows a highly participative methodology and takes its approach from the ILO’s participatory Gender Audit, and the Inter-Action Gender Audit…